After a morning learning about the Klondike gold rush and the (mostly) men who slogged their way up the mountains to get there through White Pass, we were dropped on the main street of Skagway to wander. We started by Read More …
Highway 98 was opened 1978. It links Skagway and Whitehorse, in the Yukon, and follows the route used by the Klondike Gold Rush Stampeders through White Pass. The present day Canadian and US customs checkpoints are up on the White Read More …
Skagway Is a small town on a fjord called the Lynn Canal. In the winter it gets down to less than a thousand people. In the summer the population swells to 2,500 working in the town and, when there are Read More …
The Red Dog Saloon We had lunch at the Red Dog Saloon. When we were planning the cruise and deciding what excursions to do when we were in port, our focus in Juneau was the Mendenhall Glacier. We overheard a Read More …
During our visit to the Mendenhall Glacier we walked up to Nugget Falls. Though the falls can be seen beside the glacier, they don’t flow from it. Instead, they come from the parent glacier high in the mountains and the Read More …
How many people have their very own twenty-first century version of a fairy godmother? Single mom Angelina Redding has Molly, and it’s a good thing too, because Angelina’s life is about to get very complicated. Start with Craig Harding, the Read More …
The Cat Came Back Book 1 in the 9 Lives Cozy Mystery Series. The nine books in the 9 Lives series centre around Christy Jamieson. Christy is a regular girl who met her prince (Frank Jamieson) when she was 19 Read More …
The Mendenhall Glacier is an ice tongue that flows out of the massive Juneau Icefield. It’s retreating, leaving behind it a melt lake that is also fed by Nugget Falls, which can be seen beside the glacier. Though it is Read More …
Our sole planned excursion in Juneau was to the Mendenhall Glacier. The driver of our bus provided a commentary on Juneau sites as he drove, then left us at the glacier to organize our own time there. We decided to Read More …
Snow Pass is up the coast from Ketchikan. Here the Inside Passage narrows and the tidewater produces an abundance of fish. The Island Princess had a naturalist on board and throughout the afternoon he was on the shipwide PA system, Read More …